International conference agrees to impose near-total ban on snatching African elephants from the wild to send them to zoos and other captive facilities—but stops short of completely barring the trade in African elephants captured in their habitats.
An international conference on wildlife trade has agreed to impose a near-total ban on snatching African elephants from the wild to send them to zoos and other captive facilities around the world.
The European Union, with its 28-strong voting bloc, initially opposed it, but reversed course after the primatologist Jane Goodall and others registered protests. The EU countries agreed to support the measure only after it was amended to allow the trade in"exceptional circumstances" where their transfer will result in"conservation benefits for African elephants."
CITES, which regulates global trade in over 35,000 species of plants and animals, currently allows wild elephants in Botswana and Zimbabwe to be exported to"appropriate and acceptable" destinations. An initial vote last week at the start of the 12-day CITES meeting saw 46 countries vote to adopt changes to the rules that would essentially end the controversial trade, limiting exports of wild elephants from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe to local conservation programs or secure areas in the wild"within the species' natural range, except in the case of temporary transfers in emergency situations." Eighteen countries voted against the move.
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